Instructions for the Reviews:
The Reviews must follow this Format/Content:
1) All the readings for each Section of the syllabus should be covered in the Review for
that section. The degree of attention and space you devote to each reading in your
review, however, is up to you. The point is not to write a detailed summary of the
readings but to identify the key and salient points of each author’s findings and
assertions. You can, but you do not need to, write these reviews in essay format; you
can simply name the author and identify key arguments/points that you think are most
important in that particular reading. Your grade for each review will depend on: a) the
comprehensiveness of your coverage, i.e., inclusion of the assigned readings and
materials, b) meeting the minimum of required pages, and c) following the format
provided here.
2) A minimum of a 5 page Review (no more than 7 pages) on the required
readings/materials for each Section is mandatory. The Review must be typed double-
spaced, with one inch margins and font 12 format.
3) Must Bold the names of authors.
4) Try to identify key points/main ideas of each reading.
5) Contrast and compare relevant and related reading materials when
a comparison is appropriate.
6) For the Video/Audio lectures (or conversations) that are required for a review, you
need to focus, as is the case with the readings, on identifying a few main ideas and key
points. Only those videos that are designated in the Syllabus as “Required” must be
included in the Review).
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7) Read the readings and write the reviews in the sequence in which they appear
on the Syllabus in order to maintain the flow of your engagement with the topic
at hand.
Readings:
-Viotti & Kauppi: Ch. 4/Selected Readings (pp. 189-233); and
Ch.7/Selected Readings (only pp. 331-333; and pp. 339-347)
-Blackboard Readings:
Gilpin, “Three Ideologies of Political Economy”**
Sterling-Folker, “Historical Materialism and World System Theory”
Sterling-Folker, “Postmodernism and ….Critical Approaches”
Cox, “Gramsci, Hegemony, and International Relations”
Cox, “World Orders, Historical Change, and the Purpose of Theory in International
Relations”
Video:
-“Immanuel Wallerstein’s World Systems Analysis”-Lecture (2013)-(Required)
Gerard van der Ree, “Critical Theory”-Lecture (Required)
-Hegemony in International Political Economy-Lecture (10 minutes)-2009 (Required)
-David Harvey: “The End of Capitalism?”
-Critical Theory-Lecture (Gerard van der Ree)-2014 (24 minutes)-(Required)
– Joseph Stiglitz, James K. Galbraith, and Branko Milanovic on “Global Inequality” (2014)-
(Required)
-Global Wealth Inequality-What You Never Knew you Never Knew (5miutes)-(Required)
-The Emergence of China in the Global Political Economy
-Noam Chomsky – Global Hegemony: the Facts, the Images”-2011
Notes on Readings for Review #4:
The readings in section 4 are devoted to prominent critical perspectives that focus on the
economic factor and the world economic structure, class conflict, and the role of tension between
domination/hegemony and resistance, in the shaping of international relations. In addition to the
book chapters in Viotti and Kauppi, several articles by leading voices from this perspective, such
as R.W. Cox, are part of the Blackboard readings. There are also some videos. (Those videos in
this section that are designated as “Required” must be included in the Review.)
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